Labour Market : —
S.iepherds and firm servants, also female servants, very scarce. Single meri for stations get at present from £50 to £-J0 , p:;r annum, and ration's. Married couples in prop>ra. n. Carpenters will also be much in dem md so soon as an adequate s ipply of timber can be obtained. Produce and Retail Market. Potatoes. <$' kit of about one cwt., Bs. ; butter (fresh), 1/6 ty }]> ; ce n *gs 1/6 ty d >z. ; wlieat, chiefly, imported from the Wairoa and other" places, 6/6 to 7s. bushel ; nriize (thesam'e) say 6s. busliel ; ehe^se (Port Cooper). 1/4 ft ; .-awn timber, (chiefly Wairoa^ 10s;'. f' 100 feet ; flour
(market very bare) £32 ffi ton ; firewood (very suaroe) can not be definitely quoted ; mutton, sd. to fl^r 1 . f^ft ; pork # beef, 6^ @7d. In wool little is doing — settlers generally preferring to ship on their o.vn account ; We have heard of one or two sale • at from 1/2 @ 1/3, but higher prices huv been declined. Fat. cattle ars not very plentiful. Fat sheep, r averaging 60 Jfr. may uo'.v be quoted at from 15s. to 18s., on the stations.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume I, Issue 5, 24 October 1857, Page 5
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185Labour Market:— Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume I, Issue 5, 24 October 1857, Page 5
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